“Open Research Data: Implications for Science and Society”, Warsaw, Poland, May 28–29, 2015, conference organized by the Open Science Platform — an initiative of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling at the University of Warsaw. pon.edu.pl @OpenSciPlatform #ORD2015

1. RepOD
– a new general-purpose Repository for Open Data
in the scientific landscape of Poland
Marta Hoffman-Sommer
Open Science Platform, ICM, University of Warsaw
Open Research Data: Implications for Science and Society, Warsaw, May 28-29, 2015

2. Research data sharing in Poland
1. Specialized, subject-specific repositories:
- well-established international data repositories, e.g. GenBank
- new local data repositories, e.g. ADS – Polish Social Data Archive
2. General-purpose data repositories:
- international repositories, eg. Figshare, Zenodo, etc.

3.  Provide a platform for easy sharing of small
research data generated by the long tail of science
in Poland.
Extension of the open access infrastructure already developed by the
Open Science Platform, in particular the CeON Repository for scholarly
literature.

4. 1. Get some researchers to share data, who would never have
thought about it otherwise.
2. Stir some movement in the Polish research community and get
more people to hear about data sharing.
3. Prepare a free, downloadable, modifiable „Research Data
Repository Package”:
a) Polish-language CKAN-based software
b) legal and policy documents for running a research data
repository in Poland
What do we expect to achieve?

5. 1. Open source software
2. Developed by the not-for-profit Open Knowledge Foundation,
now managed by the CKAN Association
3. Data portal software aimed at „national and regional
governments, companies and organizations (…) wanting to make
their data open and available” → main interest: public data
Software used

6. Major modifications / extensions:
• Changes in metadata schema (in accordance with DataCite and
OpenAIRE guidelines)
• Implementation of the OAI-PMH
• Automatic assignment of DOIs
• Moderation: manual acceptance of deposited datasets before making
them public
Software customization

7. What data will we accept?
(1) related to research activity
(2) made open
● anyone can register
● all research fields
● all file formats
● only file uploads – no links
RepOD – policies

8. 1. Licenses for files:
- Creative Commons licenses: CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, CC0
- Free software licenses for code
- No license: fair use
2. Each file in a dataset might have a separate rights statement
3. Metadata and the dataset as a whole under CC0 – mandatory
Licensing policy

9. RepOD – features
• views / downloads for individual datasets and files
• file preview
• links to related publications
• assign your dataset to an area of study (Social sciences, Technological
sciences, …) and to a resource type (image, software, text, …)
• add you dataset to a group that corresponds to a particular
university, institute, project, etc. – groups will be created upon
requests from users

10. How to use and cite the data
What and how to deposit,
legal issues
Why deposit?

11. Open Research Data: Implications for Science and Society, Warsaw, May 28-29, 2015
Developers: Mateusz Neumann, Tomasz Błażejczyk
Webmaster: Monika Maksymiuk
Graphics: Jakub Rakusa-Suszczewski
Legal issues: Krzysztof Siewicz
Coordination: Marta Hoffman-Sommer, Przemysław Kwiatkowski
and Jakub Szprot
msommer@icm.edu.pl
RepOD Team at ICM UW
www.repod.pon.pl
(starting June 2015)